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2 July
2July is an ongoing project to provide a comprehensive, easy to navigate and entertaining site aimed directly at UK teachers and students of mathematics.

BBC GCSE BItesize Maths
A secondary school revision resource for students studying their GCSEs featuring written content, interactive content, audio, video and games.

Cazoom Maths Worksheets
An exciting new range of online and printable Maths Worksheets. Perfect for maths teachers, tutors, parents or self-study, with a key focus on concentrated differentiation and appropriate levels of progression.

ClassDojo
ClassDojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators Better learning behaviors, smoother lessons

dy/dan
Dan Meyer was named one of Tech & Learning’s 30 Leaders of the Future and an Apple Distinguished Educator. He shares very useful and interesting stuff on his unique website!

Mathematics, Learning and Web 2.0
Colleen Young has set the bar very high for mathematics teaching blogs! An experienced teacher & trainer in Mathematics & IT with a keen interest in how new technologies can deepen the learning experience. Member of the TES Secondary Maths Panel

Maths Teaching Blog
A very generous Assistant Head of Mathematics at a Grammar School in Berkshire has kindly shared some excellent resources for secondary maths teachers. Ready to print, and just what you need for specific topics. Definitely one of my favourites!

Maths YDB on Scoop It!
L Moccia’s interesting collection of mathematical gems that have been scooped from some very good sources.

MathsClass
by Simon Job, maths teacher at a public high school in Western Sydney, Australia. MathsClass is about teaching and learning in a maths classroom.

Mr Barton Maths
A treasure trove of free maths gems for parents, pupils and teachers to try and get everybody enjoying mathematics a bit more!

Mrs Pasillas Math Web Page
Mrs Pasillas has kindly loaded many of her classroom resources onto a website. She has made some very bright and interesting PowerPoint presentations, but they come at quite a hefty price (ranging from $10 to $50 each – about £6 – £31)

Nayland Mathematics
One of my favourite websites for secondary maths resources. Nayland College Mathematics department believes in using the benefits of technology when teaching mathematics and sharing resources between teachers and students everywhere.

NQTPi blog
Created by Emma a young maths enthusiast and teacher who decided to reflect on her journey to becoming a maths teacher. She has written (and continues to add) some useful, interesting, funny and honest pieces. Thanks Emma, I love your writing!

Online Scientific Calculator
eCalc is a free and easy to use scientific calculator that supports many advanced features including unit conversion, equation solving, and even complex-number math. eCalc is offered as both a free online calculator and as a downloadable calculator.

Pragmatic Education
Very interesting views and ideas about education expressed by Joe Kirby, an English teacher and education blogger.

School Workout
This website is aimed at students studying mathematics at secondary schools. It contains lots of resources and revision material.

Suffolkmaths
A truly excellent website from AST, Mark Greenaway. Loads of stuff on here from resources, revision guides, advice, links, and printables to some of the best assessment resources found on the web.

SVC Maths
Home of the lovely Brainframe posters and plenty more superb worksheets and presentations. If you want help and support with your GCSE maths, this is the place to be.

Teacher Tools Forms and letters
Teacher Tools strives to provide a forum for educators, facilitating the sharing of ideas in the hopes of enriching the classroom experience.

TeachitMaths
An eclectic mix of different topics, styles and activities. Founded by English teacher Siobhain Archer in 1999 as a spare-time addition to her teaching workload.

The Guardian Resources
The Guardian Teacher Network is designed to help you not only with your day job, but also with your future career path. • Browse and use thousands of innovative free resources and create, upload and share your own

White Group Mathematics
Mr Koh is a teacher who specializes in teaching Cambridge A level H2 maths and CIE 9231 Further Maths in Singapore. He has specifically created 2 free question/answer resource portals on his site to help students. Check out the useful links pages too.

Recently I had the privilege of facilitating two half day workshops entitled, A Framework for Maker Education. The workshop including several mini-sessions of participants creating their own maker projects (Paper Circuits, Squishy Circuits, Gami-Bots, Brush bots, and micro:bit projects). What struck me most during these creating sessions was the high degree of energy, excitement, and […]

When I was in my Doctoral program, I met in one of my classes Debbie who was the Corporate Education coordinator for the university. She ran workshops for teams from profit and non-profit organizations and corporations. I had mentioned that I had a background in adventure education with a focus using outdoor team building activities. […]

My advanced degree is in counseling. I sought this degree due to my affinity towards at-risk and adjudicated youth. One of the most powerful learnings from my training as a counselor was a comment I heard at a conference, Counselors need to be purveyors of hope since many clients get in trouble and/or seek counseling […]

Recent Posts 2: Pragmatic Education

Winston Churchill once said ‘success is stumbling from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.’ Looking back now on assessment in our first year at Michaela, I can now see what I was blind to then: we stumbled and blundered. What mistakes did we make, and how did we stumble? We spent hours marking. We spent ages […]

Some two thousand years ago, a teacher, a playwright and an emperor asked: What is the best way to live? How can we deal with the difficult situations we face? What does it take to improve our minds? Their answers are the heart of Stoic philosophy. We in schools can use their insights on the […]

Imagine working for an organisation where there are no annual performance meetings, no bureaucracy, where you do not need permission to take time off, and where the expense policy is just five words long: ‘act in our best interest’. Imagine working for an organisation where every person you work with is someone you admire and […]

“Education made Shakespeare what he was” Soul of the Age: Life, Mind and World: Jonathan Bate ‘with his Tiger’s heart wrapped in a player’s hide … Shakes-scene’ Robert Greene, Shakespeare’s contemporary “Shakespeare’s schooling provided an excellent resource for the future playwright. Everything Shakespeare learned at school he used in some way in his plays. Having […]

What can we learn from a top private school? King’s College School Wimbledon is one of the most academically successful schools in the world. 96% of pupils achieve A*-A at GCSE, and 41 pupils gained A*s in every one of their exams. 25% of their pupils achieved 45 in the International Baccalaureate, which put them […]

Recent Posts 3: Back to the Whiteboard

Perhaps no other school subject commands awe quite like mathematics. ‘Awe’ is an apt word, given that maths is both respected and feared in equal measure. Mathematics possesses the power to inspire people with a profound sense of intelligence, or a crushing sense of defeat. It can be as rewarding as it can be punishing. In […]

Every year, new Teach First participants reinvent the wheel: that is, they often plan and resource 20 or more new lessons a week. Despite ten years of entering classrooms, there is no systematic sharing of our best ideas, examples and resources on how to plan, resource and teach in challenging schools. At best, teachers in […]

Use a simple, visual tracking tool. “It feels like we’re all suffering from information overload or data glut, and the good news is there might be a simple solution to that, which is using our eyes more: visualising information so we can see the patterns that matter, then designing that information so that […]

“The mind is at last yielding its secrets to persistent scientific investigation. We have learned more in the last twenty-five years about how the mind works than we have learned in the preceding twenty-five hundred years”. Daniel Willingham The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn how much knowledge and memory matters. […]

This project aims to publish an e-book for the 2013 cohort with practical ideas to support new participants to clear the first hurdles when they begin in the classroom. The guide focused on the foundations of teaching practice in order to accelerate participants’ impact on pupil progress. Every year, new participants begin in schools and […]